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		</div><p>Five female suicide bombers targeted the Chibok home town of Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls, killing nine civilians and wounding 32, witnesses said.</p>
<p>Soldiers are searching the north-eastern town for two other women seen with the bombers and also suspected to be strapped with explosives, according to teacher Emmanuel Cosmos.</p>
<p>One of three wounded soldiers died in hospital later, according to a nurse.</p>
<p>A man at the scene said the blasts with shrapnel zapping through the air began when soldiers stopped a young woman wearing a hijab for a routine search at the entrance to an open-air, roadside vegetable market in the north east Nigerian town.</p>
<p>She blew herself up.</p>
<p>Then three women already inside the market exploded in quick succession.</p>
<p>Another blast occurred at a military checkpoint at the entrance to Chibok, according to witnesses and community leader Tsambo Hosea Abana.</p>
<p>He said relatives called him in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to tell him that his niece and uncle are among the wounded.</p>
<p>Residents blamed Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that kidnapped nearly 300 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014.<br />
Dozens escaped but 219 remain missing.</p>
<p>Chibok is a Christian enclave in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.</p>
<p>The plight of the girls brought Boko Haram international attention.</p>
<p>The failure to rescue the schoolgirls contributed to the election defeat last year of former president Goodluck Jonathan.</p>
<p>The militants have said some of the girls have converted to Islam and threatened to sell them into slavery. It also said some have been married to its fighters.</p>
<p>There has been no further news of the girls, though there are reports some were carried across Nigeria’s borders.</p>
<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is willing to negotiate their release in exchange for detained militants but that his government has been unable to identify a credible leader for such talks.</p>
<p>Boko Haram’s increasing use of girls and young women as suicide bombers has raised fears the militants are using captives as weapons.</p>
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